Anybody using Micro Inverters on their solar?
Getting ready to install solar on the top of the Discovery. Doing lots of boondocking so I need the solar. Wow, prices droping like a rock! Supplier out here now offering (for 3 days) Suntech 275 watt...
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How many panels are you looking at? Last year I ran two 245w panels, each with a $100 Eco-worthy 20a MPPT controller. They worked great together and I even ran three of the systems on one bank to run the little air conditioner. Those were ran as portables and I switched to the single charge controller that would handle ll three panels simply because the wiring, switches and fuses for three separate systems would have been one big mess to mount.
Series vs parallel I found that while in series it cost a few amps per panel and the controller can get really hot after a long run. Any one panel being shaded even partially seriously affected the whole array. So I will be running bigger wire down, going parallel and avoiding the disadvantages of series.
Series vs parallel I found that while in series it cost a few amps per panel and the controller can get really hot after a long run. Any one panel being shaded even partially seriously affected the whole array. So I will be running bigger wire down, going parallel and avoiding the disadvantages of series.
